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  Fables de Phèdre
  LA BARBE DES CHÈVRES , Fable 16

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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 16</span><span class="fp-text">LA BARBE DES CHÈVRES</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XVI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">DE CAPREIS BARBATIS</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les chèvres avaient obtenu de Jupiter la permission de porter de la barbe.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les Boucs fort mécontents se plaignirent de voir</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">leurs femelles partager les marques de leur dignité</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Laissez-les jouir d'une gloire imaginaire,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et usurper un ornement de votre sexe, leur répondit Jupiter,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">puisque leur force n'égale pas la vôtre.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Barbam capellae cum impetrassent ab Jove,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hirci <span class="fp-correction" title="merentes  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">maerentes</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="maerentes  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">merentes</span></span> indignari coeperunt</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quod dignitatem <span class="fp-correction" title="femine  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">feminae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="feminae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">femine</span></span> aequassent suam.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Sinite, <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n121/mode/1up">p.58</a>]</span> inquit, illas gloria vana frui</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et usurpare vestri ornatum muneris,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">pares dum non sint vestrae fortitudinis.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cette fable nous conseille de voir, sans humeur des hommes</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de peu de mérite nous ressembler à l'extérieur.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc argumentum monet ut sustineas tibi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">habitu esse similes qui sint virtute impares.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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